I can’t really explain that much without spoiling stuff about the game that really should not be spoiled. It’s honestly a very, very unique game which if nothing else does makes it worth a look if you’re okay with horror-type games. All I will say is:
- I was about to fire it up today, and I decided that probably the avenue I had gotten myself to isn’t the most productive way forward. I dithered a little bit and then decided to hit “New Game” (which is an option that isn’t even available when the game starts) and take my chances with what would happen, banking that it would let me strategize things a little bit better.
- WHAT THE FUCK, THE “NEW GAME” BUTTON I WORKED SO HARD FOR IS GONE AGAIN NOW
- I get it why it’s gone. Guess I’m "continue"ing and finding out what comes next lol
- This is a good game
I only played through the first stage of the game before putting it aside. Thanks for reminding me that I ought to pick it up again and continue.
(Nitpick: Unique doesn’t have degrees. A thing can be very, very unusual, or it can be unique if nothing else like it exists.)
Americans often incorrectly ascribe degrees to “unique.” At this point it’s so baked into all of their dialects that it’s hard for me to keep calling it wrong.
TIL.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unique definition 3 includes examples like “very unique” and “fairly unique.” So it’s incorrect only if you assume that American usage is wrong and British usage is right, I guess. According to the Cambridge Dictionary I think you are right about how it’s used in British English.
All I can say is you’re missing out… I can see that it’s a type of game that may not be for everybody, but it is honestly probably the most unusual game I have ever played in my life and I’m enjoying it a lot. I almost did the same as you did, I beat Leshy one time and then continued messing around with it sort of out of curiosity… and then the whole actual fuckin’ game started.
It just made me pick a file from my hard drive, made me a card based on it, and then told me if I let that card die, it’s going to delete that file. This game is nuts man.
As I understand it all of daniel mullins’ games have layers like inscryption, to put it mildly. I’d check them out when you finish inscryption if you’ve enjoyed it
lol… I had a feeling it would take some drastic turns. That’s great. No more spoilers, please. I do intend to get back to it.
In case you’re not familiar with it, Doki Doki Literature Club has some surprises, too. I enjoyed it even though visual novels are usually not my jam.
Yeah. That one was on my list to play but I haven’t checked it out yet, I have heard similar things about it.
Game spoilers and subjective opinions below, be careful.
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I enjoyed all parts of Inscryption, but I think Act 1 was the best part of the game. The gameplay of act 2 wasn’t great and had too many mechanics flying around. Act 3 just felt too sterile and devoid of charm. I get that that was what they were going for, but I think I would have preferred multiple rooms in the shack over multiple chapters.
There needs to be more games like Pokemon TCG for the gameboy (which is what Act 2 was referencing) though. With a card game that fits it.
Agree on all points. Act 1 was the best. Your reward for playing all the way through is you get to play Act 1 again, as a full-fledged game of its own.
Yeah. It’s not a perfect game, it has many issues, but it is fun and exciting and it does something very very different, very successfully. I’m reminded of the Zero Punctuation review of Psychonauts basically saying that its number one good point was that it was something genuinely mad and original, in contrast to the sea of imitation that is modern gaming, and for that alone hooray.
Spoiler as well.
This game blew my mind when Golly asked me to select a file on my computer to sacrifice. Such a cool breaking of the 4th wall.
Is it possible to “win” without leaving the table?
Damn, I came really close the other day. Managed to live through the “the game will kill you now” event. Unfortunately I couldn’t keep up when I was at the boss.
But to progress the game you have to get up.
But when you finish the game a new mode is added allowing you to play normally with increasingly more difficult challenges you can put on yourself.
Yeah I gave it a shot. I couldn’t either, I’m not a big fan of escape room mechanics so I was really hoping I could. Thanks for trying
The important stuff is fortunately almost totally spelled out and hard to miss.
Yeah, almost to an excessive degree. To me it’s fine, it just means the designer has room to grow in terms of their skill at getting the right balance, but also it’s going to be a little bit of personal taste. This video includes some pretty interesting discussion of the balance between spelling things out, making sure that everyone can notice and enjoy them, versus making things opaque knowing that you’ll leave some people behind but making it that much more special for the people who found them “all by themselves” without any kind of prompting.
